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03/13/2006, 8:35am, EST
Monday, March 13th
New SanDisk player to take on iPod nano
A USA Today interview with SanDisk CEO Eli Harari talks about the company's pending release of a new player to take on Apple in the flash player market. SanDisk, which is currently second with 10 percent marketshare, is trying to leverage its lower flash memory costs and its 150,000 retail locations: "This month, we're introducing a new player, the Sansa e200, and it's superb. We feel it's far better designed than Apple's Nano, which also uses flash memory instead of a hard drive to store the music. Our new Sansa is priced attractively and has many more features than the Nano. You can view pictures and videos on our unit. We have FM radio, voice recording, a slot to add extra memory from a card, and a removable battery. The Nano doesn't have those. You have to ship the unit back to Apple if you have a problem with the battery."
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ibugv4, what does this mean...?
"A hell of a lot better than the Nano in respect that my 6,000 ripped from CD MP3 library will work on it."
If you are saying that iPods do not play MP3 files, it's obvious you don't currently own an iPod of any type.
I would love to see an Apple logo on something similar. Why don't iPod's have these features? It would simply end any debate.
Either this new player or a cool phone like the Sony Ericsson W800 which plays music and has FM too.
As to the new Sandisk player, I do like the fact that they have a 6GB model. I am fairly critical of sound quality and use fairly high bitrate VBR (~224k) to make things listenable. I do like the nano but I could use a little extra storage. (It is always full.) And if the Sandisk can play aggressive VBR files properly I'm sold. If they were to support the pre/post gap tags to allow proper segues on album oriented music I would preorder today!